Early Life, Education, and Career
Olver was born September 3, 1936 in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, the son of Helen Marguerite (née Fulleborn) and Thomas Horace Olver. His paternal grandparents were from England and his maternal grandparents were from Germany. He grew up on a farm owned by his father, where they tended two dozen cows, and his mother ran a boarding house which served families from Philadelphia and New York. Olver graduated from school when he was 15 and enrolled in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry at the age of 18. He went on to earn a Master of Science in chemistry from Tufts University in 1956, and a Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961.
Olver taught chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for eight years, and later resigned to peruse a career in politics. Olver served two terms as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from January 1, 1969, to January 3, 1973. He later served for nine terms in the Massachusetts Senate from January 3, 1973, until his resignation in 1991 to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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